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Thursday 01 March, 02007

Parp-iversary

by Matthew Bartlett @ 8:44 am

GIVEAWAY: To celebrate this day of apparently infinite potential, mhjb.co.nz/blog offers the first interested commentor one 14-watt (75-watt incandescent equivalent) Philips longlife energy saver bulb, made in China, valued at around $5.65. The catch: it’s a screw-in rather than the bayonet fitting which this house needs.

An idea: A general-purpose Wellington events calendar, why not? If it gets unwieldy we can break it down into smaller geographic or interest-based segments. Email me if you’d like to be able to add events.

11 Responses to “Parp-iversary”

  1. richface says:

    Yes please, I’m interested. Saving the planet, yeah!

  2. dennis bartlett says:

    On the saving the planet theme: Interesting item on National Radio this morning. Al Gore who’s going to save the world with his documentary An Inconvennient Truth uses four times the energy at one of his four house as the average American (around 20,000kwhrs p.a. from memory).

    Bad form Al!

  3. dennis bartlett says:

    Correction to the above: 20 time yes thats right folks TWENTY times the average American

  4. Matthew says:

    Ha. I hope he takes the hint and goes all super efficient then.

  5. kathy says:

    you could add letter writing days to the calendar

  6. Matthew says:

    Good idea; done.

  7. kathy says:

    56 days to go until what??

  8. Matthew says:

    The 10,000 days party.

  9. A says:

    formatting thingy… why ’02007′ on all posts instead of just ’2007′

  10. Matthew says:

    I got the idea from Long Now, maybe particularly from this essay. The idea is to become the kind of people who plant trees to replace the beams in their buildings when they need it in five hundred years.

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